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Humans May Have Left Africa Earlier Than Thought

WASHINGTON -- Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the Nile to a northern exit, an international team of researchers says. Stone tools discovered in the United Arab Emirates indicate the...

Why Did Neanderthals Have Such Big Noses?

For more than 100 years, scientists studying Neanderthals, humanity's closest known relative, have pondered one question: Why did they have such massive noses? This isn't just a question of beauty. Scientists posited that the big snouts could hold a clue to the world these primitive hominids lived in, according to...

Neanderthals Enjoyed Home-Cooked Meals, Study Finds

Even Neanderthals understood the value of a diverse diet. Researchers have identified strong evidence that the Neanderthal diet, previously thought to be almost exclusively meat-based, also included a nutritious portion of cooked vegetables, according to findings in the upcoming issue of Proceedings of the National...

DNA Shows Newly Discovered Human Relative Roamed Widely in Asia

NEW YORK -- Scientists have recovered the DNA code of a human relative recently discovered in Siberia, and it delivered a surprise: This relative roamed far from the cave that holds its only known remains. By comparing the DNA to that of modern populations, scientists found evidence that these "Denisovans" from more than...

Study: Neanderthals Didn't Always Act Like Cavemen

(Oct. 6) -- Neanderthals weren't Neanderthals at all -- at least not in terms of being brutish cave dwellers dragging women around by the hair. In a study published this week by researchers at England's University of York, the human ancestors are depicted as caring, empathetic people who tended the weak and infirm,...

Background on neanderthals

Neanderthals were members of a group of the genus Homo, now extinct, known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia.

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